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Down by the riverside

A work barge drives temporary steel pilings into the Columbia River on Thursday for a new water intake facility being built by Pasco upriver from the Interstate 182 bridges on Court Street. The work is part of a $7.5 million project for the West Pasco Water Treatment Plant and includes adding two huge pumps with a capacity of six million gallons a day.
A work barge drives temporary steel pilings into the Columbia River on Thursday for a new water intake facility being built by Pasco upriver from the Interstate 182 bridges on Court Street. The work is part of a $7.5 million project for the West Pasco Water Treatment Plant and includes adding two huge pumps with a capacity of six million gallons a day. Tri-City Herald

A work barge drives temporary steel pilings into the Columbia River on Thursday for a new water intake facility being built by Pasco upriver from the Interstate 182 bridges on Court Street.

The work is part of a $7.5 million project for the West Pasco Water Treatment Plant and includes adding two huge pumps with a capacity of six million gallons a day.

West Court Street between Harris Road and Road 100 will be closed until Jan. 26 while an underground line from the intake station to the treatment facility is installed.

This story was originally published January 4, 2018 at 4:10 PM with the headline "Down by the riverside."

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